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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Maria Boulden/Gartner

Partners in Excellence

Here’s Maria: “I graduated with a degree in chemical engineering with a chemistry minor. And I started my career with a chemical company doing the things you would expect a chemical engineer to do…research, development, manufacturing, operations and beyond. As a trained problem solver, I had to learn more.

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Five Skills to Help New Sales Managers Succeed

Miller Heiman Group

In this guest blog post from one of our inaugural Miller Heiman Group Icons , Kevin Lewis, Global Sales Excellence Leader at Milliken Chemical and an authority on developing sales managers, recommends five ways to get new sales managers off to a great start. Great sales leaders aren’t born: they’re made.

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Move the Deal Episode 11: Sales Management Strategies that Work with Kevin Lewis

Miller Heiman Group

In the latest episode of Move the Deal , host Greg Moore talks with Kevin Lewis, Global Sales Excellence Leader Kevin Lewis at Milliken Chemical. Best Practices in Sales Manager Coaching. With that in mind, Lewis discusses the importance of sales coaching as a sales manager.

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Sales middle managers – what motivates them the most?

Sales Training Connection

The results are part of Insigniam’s 2014 Middle Management Survey, which is based on responses from 200 managers in Global 1000 companies from several industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, manufacturing, and biotech. ©2014 Sales Momentum, LLC.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Many StorySlab customers rely heavily on outside sales and suddenly had to adapt to a remote selling world. Q: What is the impact on organizations that adopt virtual training? That has all been upended now.

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Let’s Talk Sales! Inspirational Quote from Jack Welch – Episode 142

criteria for success

This quote comes from Jack Welch, an American business executive, author, and chemical engineer. He said: “If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it, you almost don’t have to manage them“ – Jack Welch.

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Enabling Growth: Solving New Product Challenges with CPQ

Cincom Smart Selling

Westinghouse didn’t have time to train engineers. Today, sales people still have to have a prodigious fund of esoteric knowledge, but they also have considerable help in the form of automating certain functions. Are there any chemical applications applied to or used to treat the metal before or after processing?

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